The sound in Milan felt unmistakable: a crowd rising as a skater snapped into a move that once symbolized rebellion. Backflips still carry that old charge in figure skating, because the sport spent ...
MILAN — It’s reckless and exhilarating, daring and unnecessary, thrilling and chaotic all at once. The mid-routine backflip is one of skating’s most controversial moves, and Ilia Malinin — for the ...